Chapter 19 - 19 Chapter 17: Drawing a Tiger but Ending Up with a Cat, The Bully Returns_2 (2/2)

After more than a decade of hard work, not only did he marry a beautiful wife and move into an impressive house, but he also purchased some property. A true success story.

Currently, Xu Zhenchang not only farms over ten acres of his own land but also rents over a hundred acres from the Yan Family.

He is one of their largest tenant farmers.

Of course, he couldn’t possibly manage so much work by himself, so he hired quite a few helpers at home.

He personally oversees the agricultural techniques.

Wang Furen’s idea to use Xu Zhenchang to get Qin Niu’s self-prepared fertilizer for ten Wen Money per basket was not a bad one.

It’s just unfortunate that he still underestimated Qin Niu.

“The same words as before, Uncle Wang. If you think Xu Boss’s fertilizer is cost-effective, you can buy his. As for mine, it stands at that price, but I can guarantee the effectiveness of my fertilizer,” Qin Niu maintained firmly.

Qin Niu was firm about his pricing.

If he sold it cheap this time, it would always have to be sold cheap in the future.

Fifty Wen Money per basket was definitely a steep profit.

But he was earning for his expertise.

And expertise itself is priceless.

“Not one Wen Money less?” Wang Furen’s tone had softened considerably.

“Not a single Wen can be spared,” Qin Niu stood firm.

“Alright, I will consider it more!” Wang Furen, with hands clasped behind his back, walked away. His tone had loosened up quite a lot since last time, and his intent to purchase seemed much stronger.

Watching the corn that Qin Niu had grown change daily, thriving healthily.

They had started to bear ears of corn, each stalk with two to three ears; he truly envied them from the bottom of his heart.

Fifty Wen Money per basket was sincerely not cheap, and Wang Furen, a businessman by trade, wouldn’t consider a transaction that resulted in a loss.

Each basket of fertilizer would have to bring him an income of at least one hundred Wen Money for him to even think about it.

Grain prices, affected by natural disasters and pests, are highly volatile.

In years of severe drought, grain prices typically remain high for at least two years. Both landlords and ordinary people, upon seeing a drought, would hoard grain and sell sparingly, with prices changing daily.

Due to drought causing a decrease in crop yields, poor harvests within the year mean that the new crop will take at least six months to come forth.

Thus, famine is bound to occur.

So, in every severe drought, grain prices would stay at a high level for at least two years.

Last year, a minor drought did not greatly affect grain prices, just a slight increase.

This year, the price of one stone (approximately 120 pounds) of corn is around 120 Wen Money.

Which is roughly one Wen Money per pound, and that’s when prices are normal.

For an ordinary laborer in a landlord’s family, the annual income is three taels of Silver Money, plus allowances for firewood and shoes, totaling at most 3.6 taels of Silver Money for the year.

That’s equivalent to a wage of ten Wen Money a day.

This income is very low, only enough to buy ten pounds of corn. But its advantage lies in its stability, sufficient to support parents and children.

The daily income of a grown man is only enough to buy ten pounds of grain; grain is not cheap.